All posts tagged "texas"
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Transgender activist trolls Texas governor with selfie to protest bathroom bill
A Texas transgender activist expertly trolled Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over his support for a “bathroom bill” that places restrictions on transgender people’s ability to...
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Texas CEOs write letter to Republican leaders opposing bathroom bill
Letter sent to governor and other lawmakers before a vote on bathroom bill
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Bathroom bill rears its head amid Texas political showdown
At this point, Texas House Speaker Joe Straus (R-San Antonio) is the only obstacle preventing the Lone Star State from passing a North Carolina-style law...
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Texas governor signs anti-LGBTQ adoption bill into law
On Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill that allows adoption or foster care agencies to refuse to place children with certain prospective...
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Texas governor calls special session, reviving anti-trans bathroom bill
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has called a special legislative session designed to force Lone Star State lawmakers to pass a slew of 20 bills, including a...
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Bill targeting transgender student-athletes dies in Texas House
A bill that could have blocked transgender athletes from competing in interscholastic sports died unceremoniously in the Texas House on Friday. The bill, which was...
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Texas House passes anti-LGBTQ adoption bill
Texas would become the sixth state to allow child placement agencies to turn away same-sex parents
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Texas “bathroom bill” could cost state more than $3 billion
New bill restricts localities from passing their own ordinances regulating bathroom access
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Texas House Speaker: Bathroom bill “manufactured and unnecessary”
A bill that seeks to restrict which restrooms transgender people in Texas can access seems destined for the scrap heap, if comments from the state’s powerful...
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Texas Senate passes anti-transgender bathroom bill
Bill now heads to Texas House, where its future is less certain
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Texas Senate hears testimony on anti-trans bathroom bill
On Tuesday, the Texas Senate heard hours of testimony in favor and against SB 6, a “bathroom bill” that seeks to prohibit people from using...
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NBA commissioner wants to bring back All-Star Game to Charlotte
Even though he signed off on yanking this year’s All-Star Game from Charlotte and moving it to New Orleans, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver wants to...
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Ad opposing Texas bathroom bill tells people to “pee with LGBT”
Ad warns Texans of backlash that North Carolina faced after it passed the controversial anti-LGBTQ HB 2 law
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Opponents of anti-trans bathroom bill unleash fury on Texas Lt. Governor
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) is under siege from a deluge of phone calls, emails or letters opposing his pet project, the so-called “Texas...
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NBA follows NFL’s lead in warning Texas not to pass “bathroom bill”
The sports community is telling the Lone Star State “not so fast” when it comes to pushing through a discriminatory “bathroom bill” that would prohibit...
